Quotes on Play

I wanted to play baseball!

Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Center is a very tough position to play.

Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

You can't win if you don't play as a unit.

Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to play myself.

Author: Victoria Abril

The play is not in the words, it's in you!

Author: Stella Adler

I'm going to have to pick my shots and play great tennis.

Author: Andre Agassi

Concentrate, play your game, and don't be afraid to win.

Author: Amy Alcott

I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement.

Author: Fred Allen

It actually took me a year to learn how to play running back - to understand what they were doing defensively and then what our guys were doing every single play.

Author: Marcus Allen

You've got to be extremely careful, because you could be with a great team, and you could be the product of a great team. There are some players that stand out despite the teams that they play on, and there are some players that are good because of the team that they're with.

Author: Marcus Allen

If a horse won't eat it, I don't want to play on it.

Author: Richie Allen

When I play ball, I play hardball.

Author: Kirstie Alley

I don't want to be in some big beautiful place that nobody want me, because I play the blues.

Author: Luther Allison

I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.

Author: Herb Alpert

We just finished making a record. Everybody wants to play shows, so we're going to after that.

Author: Jeff Ament

As a brunette, I had previously been this serious actress. Then I became a blonde and got to play a completely different, comic role.

Author: Loni Anderson

The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.

Author: Maxwell Anderson

Players have two things to do. Play and keep their mouths shut.

Author: Sparky Anderson

When you record, you live with what you recorded for many many years, but when you play it's just an hour and a half and then once it's over it's over.

Author: Keren Ann

When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly.

Author: Frankie Avalon

How wonderful it is to play with someone you feel very close to.

Author: Emanuel Ax

I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.

Author: Erykah Badu

The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met.

Author: Chet Baker

We all liked the Descendants and stuff like that, so we started playing it. It's not that it was really hard, well, it does take skill to play fast and keep up your stamina. But it was something that just happened.

Author: Travis Barker

But really, anytime, I play on a practice pad as much as I can.

Author: Travis Barker

Well, if you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!

Author: Count Basie

In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the little speeches the stewardesses would do. They even do little speeches before you play gigs.

Author: Beck

I'm not homely enough to play the nerdy girl and not nearly pretty enough to play the pretty girl.

Author: Kristen Bell

Whoever wants to understand much must play much.

Author: Gottfried Benn

The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.

Author: Larry Bird

If you can play well in the studio, you can play well on stage.

Author: Ritchie Blackmore

Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.

Author: Ritchie Blackmore

When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible.

Author: Ritchie Blackmore

I don't wanna play Karen. I just don't. I've kind of done this.

Author: Selma Blair

That's the only reason I'm here. I don't need to play the game for any other reason than to win a championship.

Author: Drew Bledsoe

There's about 260 rooms in the new castle which you go through, but it's all about the game play.

Author: Don Bluth

To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.

Author: W. Bois

What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.

Author: Edward Bond

It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play.

Author: Edward Bond

The only other things, and again these things are hearsay, is that he could be pretty rough on directors, because he knew exactly the way he wanted to play the part. And he did so.

Author: Tommy Bond

We want to learn all the game and play the best way and take to our advantage.

Author: Peter Bondra

There is an audience for every play; it's just that sometimes it can't wait long enough to find it.

Author: Shirley Booth

I was jumping out of my skin. It was horrible. I was all over the place, because I'd never been in front of a live audience. That's a whole other element in the play, the audience.

Author: Lorraine Bracco

You need three or five hands to play Ligeti.

Author: Alfred Brendel

I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.

Author: Beau Bridges

I was invited to a couple of races, but I was doing a play in New York.

Author: Josh Brolin

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Author: James Brown

He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.

Author: John Brown

I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

Author: Jackson Browne

I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart.

Author: Bill Bruford

Play is the exultation of the possible.

Author: Martin Buber

We'll probably have to play the perfect game.

Author: Tim Buckley

I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play.

Author: Gary Burton

When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.

Author: Richard Burton

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

Author: Leo Buscaglia

It doesn't matter what part I play, I try and commit myself 100 percent.

Author: Steve Buscemi

I want to play everything. I really want to do it all.

Author: Sophia Bush

We would play, then they would play a set, then we would jam on the last song.

Author: Charlie Byrd

It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.

Author: John Cage

I show up ready to play, so I normally try and fit the situation.

Author: Matt Cameron

I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good as my teacher. It took a lot of practice, which I enjoyed, and still do.

Author: Matt Cameron

So to get to play for the Yankees was really exciting. Really exciting.

Author: Bert Campaneris

Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.

Author: Bert Campaneris

I prefer to play and lose rather than win, because I know in advance I'm going to win.

Author: Eric Cantona

I just want to get to the level where I can say that that's my level, just try to play well, get up there.

Author: Jennifer Capriati

'Born to play? Hmmm. Probably Romeo... or Hamlet, I guess. Also, I'd be a great Alexander the Great.

Author: David Carradine

You can't just play the same thing, over and over again.

Author: Neko Case

It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself.

Author: Dan Castellaneta

Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.

Author: Dan Castellaneta

I dare anyone to play like Charlie Watts.

Author: Randy Castillo

And he that said that a horse was not dressed, whose curb was not loose, said right; and it is equally true that the curb can never play, when in its right place, except the horse be upon his haunches.

Author: William Cavendish

Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.

Author: Jackie Chan

I went on tour in the play H.M.S. Pinafore.

Author: Dominic Chianese

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Author: Winston Churchill

Well, I had a fiddle that I really can't play, so I loaned it to Darrell. But yeah, he's from another planet.

Author: Guy Clark

To put it better, we believe the radar gun will get you drafted, but you have to pitch to get to the big leagues. Tools will get you drafted, but you have to be able to play to get to the big leagues.

Author: Roy Clark

I went on and was still able to play some good hockey.

Author: Paul Coffey

If I could read it, I could play it.

Author: Nat Cole

So, for instance, if you came to me, I'd ask,'Do you want to write? Do you want to improvise? Why do you want to play this instrument? What do you want to do?'

Author: Ornette Coleman

Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.

Author: Ornette Coleman

You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.

Author: John Coltrane

When I started out, all I did was play my trombone.

Author: Ray Conniff

When it comes to civilian deaths, violent hostilities play no favorites.

Author: John Conyers

I'm shooting a pilot based on my show. It's a one-camera show. I play myself.

Author: Dane Cook

If I play hard to get, soon the phone stops ringing altogether.

Author: Mason Cooley

I came to Baku the same way I would go to Texas - because they asked me to come and play hip hop.

Author: Coolio

There was no testimony of conspiracy - Oswald's efforts to get in touch with the Soviets and with the Cuban Fair Play groups in New York were rebuffed, rebuffed at every step.

Author: John Cooper

So I suppose that means we can actually play the instruments.

Author: Stewart Copeland

I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version.

Author: Billy Corgan

It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.

Author: Chris Cornell

Sharon went on to play classical but we actually went into totally different instruments which was lucky for the band because otherwise we'd all be playing the same thing!!

Author: Caroline Corr

I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards.

Author: Caroline Corr

Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.

Author: Pierre Coubertin

I never saw the play, although I heard it was good.

Author: Joseph Crater

Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.

Author: Johan Cruijff

I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve.

Author: Xavier Cugat

It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move.

Author: Tony Curtis

I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.

Author: Dick Dale

For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.

Author: Matt Damon

I don't think it's a matter of, do you win the game or not, it's how gracefully do you play it.

Author: Ted Danson

It's difficult to gauge that. With a bad guy you just know you're bad. To play a nice guy is harder - unless you are a very nice person like me of course.

Author: James D'arcy

He has all those different aspects to him, so I can more or less decide as a performer how I'm going to deliver a line in a particular scene, or play a particular scene in total.

Author: Paul Darrow

I don't think they're going to pay me to play Mufasa.

Author: Keith David

Rosie knows how to play ball. She's an athlete, for sure.

Author: Geena Davis

I'm usually called upon to play the dreary suicidal girl.

Author: Hope Davis

So it was good for me to play a likable person and it was just an amazing situation to be in.

Author: Kristin Davis

I'll play it and tell you what it is later.

Author: Miles Davis

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Author: Miles Davis

Anybody who's ever had the privilege of seeing me play knows that I am the greatest pitcher in the world.

Author: Dizzy Dean

So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.

Author: Gavin DeGraw

If that's the way the game is played, I don't want to play anymore.

Author: Joyce DeWitt

Eat some pizza, play some Xbox, watch some TV. Gross? Maybe. Me? Yes.

Author: Dustin Diamond

I play a huge variety of roles.

Author: Casper Dien

I think there are some players born to play ball.

Author: Joe DiMaggio

I write short stories, and I wrote a play.

Author: Rita Dove

We've all listened to Dr. Laura Schlessinger, haven't we? We all know how not to play a psychiatrist.

Author: Lesley-Anne Down

We never really wanted to play in California.

Author: Santiago Durango

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Author: Albert Einstein

We decided to play the NEC because we were asked to, and because we actually rather like the place: we've always enjoyed doing it before. We don't often get sensible offers to play in the UK, so most years we just play on the mainland, with the occasional exotic detour.

Author: Andrew Eldritch

Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play.

Author: Robert Englund

The reason I don't tour is that I don't know how to front a band. What would I do? I can't really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.

Author: Brian Eno

We were gradually playing larger venues and in the early days PA systems were kind of non-existent. So to play loud, we had to use louder equipment. The PA systems back then didn't mic the instruments - only the vocals.

Author: John Entwistle

I ain't heard anyone play like I do in my band and I am very happy about that.

Author: John Entwistle

With each game I play, each season I play, everyone would agree with me, I'm running out of chances.

Author: Brett Favre

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play it better than anyone else.

Author: Dianne Feinstein

Yes I still enjoy playing him. He's the best person to play isn't he?

Author: Tom Felton

No one should be allowed to play the violin until he has mastered it.

Author: Jim Fiebig

He played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the ace.

Author: Eugene Field

If I'm not afraid when I'm reading a script, that means I know I've done it before. If I read something and think, Wow, I can't play this part, then I want to play it more.

Author: Linda Fiorentino

If I play my best, I can win anywhere in the world against anybody.

Author: Ray Floyd

I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.

Author: Steve Forbert

I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.

Author: Harrison Ford

I'd be quite excited to play somebody British.

Author: Claire Forlani

Give me something interesting to play and I'm happy.

Author: Morgan Freeman

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

Author: Robert Frost

With foxes we must play the fox.

Author: Thomas Fuller

I just play him as myself, I don't ease myself into any role really. I stick a beard on and play me.

Author: Michael Gambon

I promise myself that I would go and do a play every year.

Author: Michael Gambon

So we are pretty convinced we don't want to play huge stadiums unless we can play them well.

Author: Jerry Garcia

I played Liddy Dole last year and met her as well. From the artful way she phrased it, I still don't know if she had actually seen me play her. She made it sound like it was good, but that's just a gift they have.

Author: Ana Gasteyer

I'm not a standup, but I play one on TV.

Author: Ana Gasteyer

If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice.

Author: Stan Getz

I think any parent that makes their kid sit at a piano against their will and practice, they're going to have a kid that's not going to want to play the piano.

Author: Debbie Gibson

I'd rather play in front of a full house than an empty crowd.

Author: Johnny Giles

I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.

Author: Dizzy Gillespie

Yeah, I've always been accused of having a sense of mischief and I'm very flattered that you say you can see it in the roles I play, because I think that's important, even if I do play intense characters, like especially Christine Cagney.

Author: Sharon Gless

If you can't play the blues... you might as well hang it up.

Author: Dexter Gordon

It's really hard for me to sing and play bass.

Author: Kim Gordon

Well, I play Jews and parrots. Parrots are how I've branched out.

Author: Gilbert Gottfried

We still play Foreigner songs. I play the songs that I was involved in writing.

Author: Lou Gramm